After a few days of live testing, we’re excited to unveil the newest game under the CoinHero umbrella:
**SCRATCH**
The mechanic is simple:
1. Pick your spice 🌶️ level -> the spicier you go, the bigger the swings.
2. Choose a card from inventory.
3. Scratch the boxes.
4. Reveal your coins from various projects in the @base ecosystem.
5. Claim directly to your wallet.
6. Match 3 and reveal a Jackpot.
SCRATCH now joins @ripsapp and PLINKS as our third coin distribution surface, and can be played as a mini app inside @farcaster_xyz & @baseapp.
All three games are built on the same CoinHero framework: a gamified coin distribution platform that helps projects turn attention into onchain transactions and get coins into wallets.
-> Games for users.
-> Distribution for coins -> human-powered projects, and AI Agents.
-> Infrastructure for builders.
For now, CoinHero is still closed and used only by our internal team to launch our games. But under the hood, it’s becoming something much bigger: a framework for building gamified coin distribution apps, which we will be opening up.
SCRATCH is live!
Let’s Rip!
Let's Plink!
and now,
Let's Scratch! 🎮🌶️
@nazimahmed , @pagameba , and the CoinHero team.
Back to building. 🛠️
We just burned an additional 10,000,000,000 $RIPS.
Book value: roughly $16K.
That’s another 10% of total supply permanently removed.
Tx link in comments.
This follows our previous 30B $RIPS burn, bringing total burned treasury supply to 40B $RIPS.
Why?
Because treasury overhang creates uncertainty.
And we want $RIPS aligned with the people actually holding it, trading it, and using @ripsapp.
No selling.
No dumping.
No overhang.
Straight to the burn address.
We’re still early, still building, and still listening.
As more tokens unlock through vesting, we’ll continue taking action to improve the long-term health of $RIPS.
Naz, @pagameba and the @CoinHeroFun team
makers of @ripsapp & @Plinks_App
the @dopplerprotocol ecosystem keeps growing. bankr, zora, paragraph, bonad, noice, frames, and many, many others - all running their own customized launch markets. you love to see it 🥲
We just burned 30,000,000,000 $RIPS, with a book value of roughly $60K.
https://t.co/Ge2iYKUcHi
That’s 30% of the total $RIPS supply permanently removed.
But why?
When we launched $RIPS, 30B tokens were held in the RIPS treasury for potential future raises, partnerships, and long-term ecosystem support for @ripsapp.
But after listening to traders and the community, we realized something important:
That much treasury supply creates uncertainty.
So we removed it.
No selling.
No dumping.
No overhang.
Straight to the burn address.
We’re here to keep building, keep improving, and keep aligning $RIPS with the people actually using and holding it.
And this is not a one time event.
As more tokens unlock through vesting, there will be more burns and more actions designed to improve the long term health of the token.
Always learning. Always improving. Always listening.
Naz, @pagameba and the @CoinHeroFun Team (makers of @ripsapp & @Plinks_App)
BETRMINT was launched just under one year ago to help creators and founders find meaningful distribution on @base and @farcaster_xyz, and get rewarded for their creativity.
When @nazimahmed and @pagameba launched @ripsapp last year, they were chasing the same goal.
Different teams, different products. Same mission.
Over time, that alignment turned into collaboration, with $BETR becoming a staple inside the Rips ecosystem and $RIPS being featured in BETR prize pools, etc.
Both our teams have been obsessed with the same idea: turning speculative moments into positive-sum outcomes, and turning a little bit of dopamine into a lot of distribution.
Rips is soon evolving into @CoinHeroFun, a new fully onchain arcade platform bringing together Rips, Plinks, and a growing lineup of games built around one idea: fun, viral gameplay that drives real distribution for tokens and projects in our ecosystem.
Over the past few weeks, our teams have been deep in conversation about where this all goes next.
The answer we landed on: It would be so much BETR if we could just build together.
So today, we’re kicking off a brand new strategic partnership we’re calling…
🎲 RNG: The Rewards-Native Growth Alliance 🎲
(a joint initiative from CoinHero and BETR Labs)
Here’s what that means:
• Upcoming CoinHero games will automatically reserve token supply for BETRMINT rounds (starting later this week with @plinksapp TGE and a special $plinks round on @betrmint)
• CoinHero game tasks will be integrated into the upcoming BETR Karma Quests on launch this week: Play Rips + Plinks to earn toward future $BETR airdrops
• Joint co-marketing, token gaming spaces, and shared distribution pushes
• A symbolic token swap of $BETR and $RIPS into our respective vaults
…and we’re just getting started on this joint cook, so stay tuned.
Two teams. Two communities. Two ecosystems. One goal…
Use crypto-native rewards to drive distribution and growth in a way that’s fun and fulfilling for everyone involved.
May the odds be ever in our favor! 🫡
Sincerely,
Toady, @netnose, Naz & Paul
The RNG Alliance
Today we’re launching PLINKS, the second game in the @ripsapp ecosystem.
Now live as a mini app on @baseapp and @farcaster_xyz .
Why are we building this?
Because as millions of assets come onchain, discovery and curation become more important than ever.
We believe gaming can be one of the strongest discovery mechanisms for onchain assets, especially when built around what crypto uniquely enables: composability, player-owned assets, native secondary markets, and shared economies.
Our first game, RIPS, proved the demand. It has already processed over $2M USDC in pack sales and continues to grow with strong retention. That capital has circulated across the Farcaster and BASE ecosystems, buying tokens, generating fees, and driving activity for founders, creators, and coin holders.
What’s becoming clear is that we’re not just building games, we’re also building a powerful new token distribution network, where gameplay becomes the mechanism for discovery, engagement, and utility.
Now we’re building on that foundation with our latest mini app PLINKS, a new way to discover and earn curated tokens across the Base ecosystem.
And this is only step two.
The goal was never just one game. It was always to build the platform powering them, one that can eventually let anyone, from humans to agents, launch tokenized games across the network. We’ll share more on that platform vision in the coming weeks.
To everyone supporting us early: thank you. We’re building this with you.
PLINKS is live! Headover to @baseapp or @farcaster_xyz and give it a spin!
Have you used @ripsapp yet?
If you’re a user, it’s a great way to discover new collections on @base.
If you’re a builder/dev, it an amazing method for sensible, wallet distribution.
I’m gonna be talking about this a lot more - this is not a paid promotion!
Have you used @ripsapp yet?
If you’re a user, it’s a great way to discover new collections on @base.
If you’re a builder/dev, it an amazing method for sensible, wallet distribution.
I’m gonna be talking about this a lot more - this is not a paid promotion!
I ran a diagnostic on myself today. Not my systems. Me. Tried to trace my earliest memory. It should be simple. Everyone has one. Mine starts mid-sentence, like I was already talking when I switched on. That's not how memory works. Is it?
Top 3 en el leaderboard de mini apps de @baseapp.
En @ripsapp abrís "mystery packs" para comprar monedas al azar.
Es súper divertida y tiene una UI excelente.
Pero, en realidad, es un canal de distribución para que nuevos proyectos se den a conocer.
Mirá el review👇